● SOUTH DAKOTA
Mount Rushmore
South Dakota
MOUNT RUSHMORE STATE
With one of the largest concentrations of national and state
state, in the Black Hills, Badlands park, which is also home to prairie
& Lakes Region, where the dogs, elk, white-tailed deer, burros
parks, memorials and monuments in the world, South Dakota
Black Hills National Forest (donkeys) and approximately 1,500
offers travellers outdoor adventure, breathtaking natural
offers hiking, biking and camping in free-roaming buffalo. The Buffalo
grassy mountain meadows, below Roundup & Arts Festival is
beauty and a myriad of activities sure to create a lifetime of
towering, granite peaks and through an annual highlight and takes place
unforgettable memories.
deep, cavernous canyons. in late September.
Custer State Park – like As the name implies, the park’s
Custer City, named after George 18-mile Wildlife Loop Scenic
A. Custer of Little Bighorn fame, Byway delivers both wildlife
T
he state motto of South who led an expedition in 1874 and spectacular scenery, with
Dakota is “Great Faces, that discovered gold in French sweeping panoramic views from
Great Places” – and if Creek – is also in the Black Hills and Wildlife Loop Road, the Peter
ever a phrase summed up is the second-largest state park in Norbeck Scenic Byway and
somewhere exactly, it’s that. the United States. There are more the Needles Highway. Driving
The Great Faces, of course, are than 180 species of birds in the around the Loop, travellers might
world famous: The 60 foot-high
images of George Washington,
Fort Sisseton Historical Festival
Thomas Jefferson, Theodore
Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln
carved into the side of Mount
Rushmore have become a great
American icon. And the Great Places
– such as the world-renowned
Black Hills, the mysterious
Badlands National Park and
the cowboy town of Deadwood –
are all so familiar from Western fi lms,
TV and documentaries that you may
feel you know them already.
Mount Rushmore
National Memorial is located
“Wild Bill Hickok,” Deadwood
in the southwest corner of the
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